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Before we reached Minot's there was some sail went into the air. One after the other went the balloons on the Foster, the Colleen, the Withrow and at last on us. I don't know whether they had any trouble on the others being too busy with our own to watch but we came near to losing men with ours.
Then the spirit of the builder wavered, and he began to doubt that any structure built by men could withstand the powers of nature at Minot's Ledge. But, in time, the truth appeared. A bark, the New Eagle, heavy laden with cotton, had been swept right over the reef, and grounded at Cohasset. Examination showed that she had carried away in her hull the framework of the new tower.
Wyeth and Zoeth and Captain Shadrach and Crawford who, standing on the wharf, waved theirs in return as the big ship moved slowly out of the dock and turned her nose toward Minot's Light and the open sea. For the first time since Hamilton and Company put up a sign both partners had come to Boston together.
She had gone ahead of the fleet, taking almost a straight course for Minot's Ledge. Reaching across from Half-Way Rock to Minot's the fleet began to overhaul her. She, making bad weather of it along here, started to turn around. But, rolling to her top-rail, it was too much for them, and her captain kept her straight on for Boston. That was all right, but her action threw Ohlsen off.
Willard," then introduced Katherine, who was beginning to understand some things that had puzzled her, and to feel quite uncomfortable. They stood chatting together until their change was handed them, when they passed out of the store, Mr. Willard taking possession of Miss Minot's bandbox with an air of proprietorship which, to say the least, was suggestive.
The two songs have about as much in common as those of the hermit thrush and the brown thrasher, or those of the song sparrow and the chipper. In other words, they have nothing in common. Probably in Minot's case, as in so many others of a similar nature, the simple explanation is that when he thought he was listening to one bird he was really listening to another.
Well, I never did like that forem'st that was in the Colleen, and so, thinks I, here's a chance to test it and why not, with the race coming on? So I jibed her over off Minot's just and sure enough it cracked about ten feet below the mast-head." "You were satisfied then, Tom?" "Sure and I was. And better before the race than in the race. And next day that's to-day we spent putting in a new stick.
Off Minot's was the turning buoy, with just room, as it was considered, for one vessel at a time to pass safely in that sea. O'Donnell figured that the tide being high there was easily room for two, and then breasted up to the Withrow, outside of her and with the rocks just under his quarter.
Cod have been caught weighing 150 pounds, but not in Massachusetts Bay of late years. A half-mile to the east of Minot's and southward to beyond Scituate harbor runs an irregular ridge along the sea bottom at a depth of six to ten fathoms, while to the east and west is deeper water.
It was so perfectly done, even to the plain ring on my middle finger, a wide old-fashioned ring which had been my grandmother Minot's, and bore the initials "E.M." I could not speak when I saw it, and if I could I should not have dared to for fear of some unfortunate expression. I wished in my heart it had been any one else but me.
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